For several days before these troops, arrived the. civilian. popula. Vion had been pouring out of the city. Merchants with their clerks and helpers heavily loaded with merchandise passed through the city ites: shopkeepers with their various wares, trudged along; students rude-forced to leave school and college and wander afar were seen in large numbers in the endless procession of homeless wanderers that were fleeing, from their homes, while household= ers, men and) women, laden with bedding. food and cooking utensils, with children tied on their backs oF {rudaing at their side prodded wearily These motley crowds-of unfortunate humanity pressed on in Tong une ending streams from morning til) hight, over all the winding pathways that led to the distant hills: hoping.
lind shelter in some of the isolated homes or hamlets; in villages. oF market towns and trusting to uneer= tain fate to direct their footsteps somewhere to a place of "refuge where their lives might be preserved and where they. might," escape the them, horrors of war that had come upon During the night of November. 23 and on the following day" other Japanese troops arrived and under the protection of their planes erossed the West River in' several places. Severe fighting on a large scale developed in both' the caste western suburbs of the "The Chinese ably led and fight ing desperately charged and eountercharged regaining lost. position only. to lose them again after another force counter-attack.
Some important points were gained many as five or six. times the ebb and flow of bathe con-daily the trol and faye of the Risin, red over the lumbering.
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